Primož Jakopin, photo diary

July 10, 2016, 33 pictures

Most images are approximately 683 x 1024 pixels in size,
numbers in front of picture descriptions are
serial numbers of the original photo files. Event participants, members of
DZRJL, who contributed to the making of the pictures:
Matic Di Batista - Diba and Špela Borko, Tomaž (Garmin) and Aleksandra (Jerca) Kranjc,
David Sluga and Ester Premate, Behare Rexhepi - Beki (Becky).

All pictures photo and copyright (c) Primož Jakopin 2016.

30797. The excursion started as a team of three pairs plus Vili (Vilma), a 7-month Min Pin-like she-dog Jerca got the custody of from her sister Maja over the weekend.

30798. The trail begins in the woods but after half an hour passes below a mighty wall.

30801. At Jezerca Špela, Becky and Matic who started the trip later because of late night obligations, caught up with the party and we were complete. In the picture: group photo at Studorski preval pass.

30800. A grass with carrot-like leaves and long haired bobble head on top

30802. At the bench below Tosc the party split up - Garmin, Jerca and Vilma started the ascent on Tosc to document 3 previously discovered and explored smaller caves (čurke in Slovenian) while the others proceeded along the trail to Vodnikov dom, to find the Jama v Toscu cave.

30804. Some 3 meters above the trail a promising hole in the rock was to be seen.

Map of the surroundings, from www.geopedia.si and DZRJL e-cadastre. The Jama v Toscu cave was discovered on August 21, 1968 by members of JKLM, as DZRJL was named at the time, but there is only a short description of the entrance position, no data about the cave. It is marked as a red circle on the map. For good reasons which are too complex for a brief explanation we set the camp at the point marked with a violet point (about 1 km WSW) and started looking for the cave around it.

30806. Base camp on the rocky outcrop below the trail

30805. Špela on the slope below the wall to the south of Poljane

30807. David (picture center) during the ascent to a promising fissure (on top of grassy tongue above him). The fissure turned out to be a natural bridge, but no cave.

30808. Sun warmed the rocks and slope winds developed, most suitable for paragliding. In the picture: a paraglider cruising NE towards Studorski preval.

30815. In 1951 the movie Kekec (c is pronounced as ts), about a youngster from a Slovenian mountain village, was filmed and it was the first Slovenian feature film to win an international award: the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival in 1952. Two more sequels were made, Srečno Kekec (Good Luck, Kekec) in 1963 and Kekčeve ukane (Kekec Trickery) in 1968. In the picture: a scene from the test footage of the upcoming fourth sequel: Kekec na jamski sledi ( Kekec on the Cave Trail).

30820. Becky is returning from a reconnaissance mission below the trail.